Catholic Church A Short History

"...in 230 pages [this book] offers the most dazzling display of theological score-settling since Luther nailed his theses to the door....Few people who pick up THE CATHOLIC CHURCH will be under any illusions about it. This is polemical history, varnished and cropped to fit the author's world-view--which makes it, I suppose, bad history. But it belts along at a satisfying speed, and thanks to the translator's eccentric insistence on employing the present tense it even has a faintly tabloid feel to it."Kung, Hans is the author of 'Catholic Church A Short History', published 2003 under ISBN 9780812967623 and ISBN 0812967623.